{"id":97,"date":"2012-12-15T13:59:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2012-12-16T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T02:20:15","slug":"on-the-road-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/on-the-road-and-back-again\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Road (and back) Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another trip to California in the books…and this one did not dissapoint \ud83d\ude42 While I photographed a few places, the Shasta area was my target again. And after the recent storms, had completely transformed to it’s winter coat. Amazing to see. Of course, it was MUCH colder than the last time I visited in August which kept me thinking if I had brought the right clothes for the job. Admittedly I am a winter person. My body runs warm. I love playing in the snow and skiing. The cold air in the nose. Fresh. Tingling. The quite. It’s just a special time of year. How and why I ended up in a tropical paradise…I can only say that the universe knows better than I do \ud83d\ude42
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\nWhile there were LOTS of incredible photos taken I offer you up the story of a special sunrise I was able to capture…please enjoy \ud83d\ude42
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\n445am alarm at hotel.
\nGet out to car…thick frost already over everything…it’s cold alright. Drive about 30min up to the trailhead on a frost covered road. Arriving in the parking lot there’s snow…in fact there’s a nice ground cover over the entire landscape. And it’s cold. Standing there in the dark I wonder what the hell am I doing up here? It’s completely dark, approx 25F and this hike will be completely in the snow. And there is wildlife out there…where…I have no idea, but that always enters the back of my mind. Well, this is what I’m here for. I just hope I stay warm as I hike up to 6k feet.
\nThere’s something quite remarkable about hiking in the dark. Our surroundings merely include what our headlight illuminates, leaving the reset of the world a mystery. Then of course there are the forest noises. Which, thanks to the snow, are fairly minimal. I do love winter, a lot. No silence quite like it.
\nHaving attempted this trail in August (and getting redirected lets call it) I was happy to follow the footprints of others that had already made the snowy trek. And to my surprise I was both warm and making great time. So much in fact that I arrived at the lake, (which was of course frozen over, so no reflections), before sunrise.
\nAn even better surprise, the high cirrus glowing absolutely radiantly directly behind Mt. Shasta. Standing up on the ridge alone taking in the light and experience it makes that parking-lot-decision all worth while \ud83d\ude42
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\nTo see more images from this incredible sunrise and some truly remarkable sunset (with reflection!) photographs please contact any aFeinberg Gallery<\/a> or email<\/a> us for more info \ud83d\ude42
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\nShaloha
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Hiking in the dark…the headlight made the snow to twinkle and dance as I hiked up the trail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Self-portrait after a successful sunrise. What a morning!<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Incredible pastel sunrise over Mt. Shasta as seen from the Heart Lake area.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another trip to California in the books…and this one did not dissapoint \ud83d\ude42 While I photographed a few places, the Shasta area was my target again. And after the recent storms, had completely transformed to it’s winter coat. Amazing to see. Of course, it was MUCH colder than the last time I visited in August […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[11,19,20,21,18],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image-discussion","category-trip-report","tag-california","tag-shasta","tag-snow","tag-sunrise","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}